A detective story, told in photos and film, that
unfolds in the streets, cafés, cabarets,
abandoned factories, and grand hotels of Paris.

Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly''s Rose, c''est
Paris is both a photographic monograph and a
feature-length film on DVD. This extraordinary
work of art, in two different but interlocking
and complementary formats, defies easy
categorization. For in this multi-layered opus
of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims
and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light
in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of
surrealist visions, confused identities,
artistic phantoms, unseen manipulation,
obsession, fetish, and seething desire.

Equal parts erotica, fashion shoot, art
monograph, metaphysical mystery, social and
cultural archaeology of the French capital, and
neo-noir art-house filmRose, c''est Paris is the
steamy tale of twin sisters, known only as B and
Rose, and a third principalthe city itself. An
abduction leads to a detective story that
unfolds in the streets, cafés, cabarets,
museums, abandoned factories, and grand hotels
of Paris. What happened to the missing sister?
Was there a plot? Was she really kidnapped? Is
she alive or dead? Is it in fact a case of
mistaken identity? Rheims and Bramly create a
series of extraordinary tableaux suggesting all
these possibilities and many more, featuring a
host of celebrity figures, including Naomi
Campbell, Michelle Yeoh, Monica Bellucci,
Charlotte Rampling, Valérie Lemercier, Inès
Sastre, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Marnay, Anthony
Delon, Rona Hartner, Jean-Pierre Kalfon,
Azzedine Alaïa, Louise Bourgoin, and Hélèna
Noguerra.